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President Barack Obama on Saturday described the shooting at Fort Hood as “a crime against our nation,” and called on Americans to remember the fallen and honor those who rushed to help the wounded. He also said he would continue to closely monitor the investigation.

“It is an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred anyplace in America,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “It is a crime that would have horrified us had its victims been Americans of any background. But it’s all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because of the place where it occurred and the patriots who were its victims.”

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire Thursday on soldiers at a processing center on the Texas base, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others before being shot by a civilian police officer. Hasan and the other soldiers were preparing for deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

"The SRP is where our men and women in uniform go before getting deployed," Obama said. "It’s where they get their teeth checked and their medical records updated and make sure everything is in order before getting shipped out. It was in this place, on a base where our soldiers ought to feel most safe, where those brave Americans who are preparing to risk their lives in defense of our nation, lost their lives in a crime against our nation."

Obama is expected to travel to the memorial service in Texas once one is scheduled, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.

In his address, Obama said that “In tribute to those who fell at Ft. Hood, I’ve ordered flags flying over the White House, and other federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff from now until Veterans Day next Wednesday.”

This is a TEST, Obama. Are you going to stand up for this country and our soldiers and call this what it was - an Islamic jihadist's terror attack, or are you going to be a lowlife coward who bows to the enemy and refuses to tell the truth? It's a rhetorical question, Obama. I already know the answer. spit

This was an ACT OF TERRORISM. A Hate Crime! The insanity of this government to force all the "political correctness" BS down our throats for the past 25 years is going to cause more innocents to be killed by Islamic Fascists! ENOUGH!

If this Bill passes, you no longer have any FREEDOMS left. Are you really willing to give them up for PelosiCare? Press Releases

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail

Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”

Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:

“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]

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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]

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“Criminal penalties

Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:

• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]

When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.

“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.

The crime against our nation is that there were enough MORONS out there to vote for this absolutely worthless, empty suit, slick talking, used car salesman of a President.

And why did the Dumbo brigade vote for this loser? Simply because they got caught up in a pop culture craze of the moment. Because they thought his face looked good on a coffee mug or t-shirt. And somehow in their childish minds THAT made him qualified to be President.

Or because -- in an even stupider insight into modern psychology -- people who were NOT the slightest bit racist (or were naturally good people at heart) bought into the pop psycho babble and total B.S. that was endlessly pushed by the media and celebrities -- for example Oprah -- that everyone would feel a whole lot better about themselves and their inner feelings towards Blacks if only they voted the Anointed One into office. You know, because once he was in office, then we could all have a coke, hold hands, sing kumbaya, and all the problems in the world would just magically disappear every time Barry flashed a smile.

But, gee... on a day when unemployment hit 10.2 percent -- you know, that pesky little thing that Barry said would NOT go above 8 percent so long as we also gave him have the keys to the bank, so he could blow a freakin' TRILLION DOLLARS on a stimulus package to line the pockets of his friends -- things really DON'T feel any better, now do they?

I know the racists white guys on this blog. For your information Obama is our President and please show some respect. You racists white guys; you need to realize that we are all God's children. God created us all without regard to color. You guys need prayer and I am praying for your hatred to subside. God Bless Us!!!! We need to pray for the fallen; this is not the time you behave like racists.

I know the racists white guys on this blog. For your information Obama is our President and please show some respect. You racists white guys; you need to realize that we are all God's children. God created us all without regard to color. You guys need prayer and I am praying for your hatred to subside. God Bless Us!!!! We need to pray for the fallen; this is not the time you behave like racists.

Is it racism to not want the government run healthcare? Guess I am a racist then!!

Is it racism to not want the government to tell me what kind of car I can drive? Guess I am a racist then!!

Is it racism to actually want a president to stop lieing every time he opens his mouth? Guess I am a racist then!!

Is it racism to not want to get flagged to a WH web site when I say something against the president's policies? Guess I am a racist then!!

Is it racism to not want to see my country turned into a marxist country? Guess I am a racist then!!

Dont you libs get it?? I could care less what the presidents skin color is.. As long as my country is productive and we are left alone "like our constitution states" I would continue to work 60 hours a week to support my family and the stupid lib handouts!

But, when I see not only a president but his entire staff of liers and tax evaders out for total control and power over all and everything, I want it stopped!! Guess I am a racist then!!

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that "he’s a good American." In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that "Islam’s a religion of peace."

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

George Joyce "We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts." So said President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden today in reference to Nidal Malik Hasan’s savage massacre of American soldiers at Fort Hood.

Back in July Obama’s “teachable moment” regarding jumping to conclusions in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates was a little different:

"I don’t know — not having been there and not seeing all the facts — what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry."

"Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”

In other words, Obama demonstrates here that even without all of the facts it’s quite appropriate to both be angry and to malign as stupid the acts of an entire police department.

As a former law student Obama obviously needs to pay lip service to the ideal of a slow, diligent collection of facts. But when one steps back for a larger perspective on Obama’s entire campaign and struggling presidency the image reveals one overarching theme: jumping to conclusions.

Obama’s Communications Director Anita Dunn actually bragged about how her team was able to control the media during the campaign by using videos instead of live interviews with reporters:

“One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. ... We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it.”

By carefully controlling how Obama was packaged the Maoist Dunn was ensuring that the American public would “jump to conclusions” and vote for their candidate without the campaign manager Plouffe ever having to “actually talk to reporters.”

By sealing off records of his past, including his original birth certificate and his academic records, Obama was in a way persuading Americans to forget about “all the facts” and to jump to conclusions about his qualifications to be president. In addition, would the White House be attacking Fox News if it had a healthy respect for the “marketplace of ideas?”

By not patiently and diligently collecting the facts Obama himself has jumped to conclusions about America’s past, about who might have helped author the book Dreams From My Father, about the efficacy of nationalized health care, about the effects of the economic stimulus, about George Bush, about the economic crisis that Democrats helped to precipitate, and, quite recently in Virginia and New Jersey, about the electoral payoff of his now tarnished coattails.

I can think of only one area where Mr. Obama and his team have not jumped to conclusions: Afghanistan. It seems then that when the administration does have all of the facts it has trouble making a decision, yet when the facts prove incomplete decisions are made. This seems backwards.

News reports indicate that federal law enforcement agencies had been tracking Nidal Malik Hasan for at least six months.

Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama. By ROBERT A. GEORGE Updated 2:56 PM CST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009

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President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

War On Terror: The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military.

Together they form a dangerous Fifth Column, and the Pentagon — thanks to institutionalized political correctness — is doing next to nothing to root them out .

Instead, brass are actively recruiting Muslim soldiers — whose ranks have swelled to more than 15,000 — and catering to their faith by erecting mosques even at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va. More, they're hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.

In the wake of the worst domestic military-base massacre in U.S. history, this is an outrage to say the least. And the PC blinders explain how Fort Hood commanders could have failed so horrifically in protecting their force from the internal threat there.

The terrorist suspect, an Islamic fanatic, penetrated deep into the Army's officer corps before gunning down, execution-style, more than 40 of his fellow soldiers. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 at the Texas post, which boasts some 40 Muslims.

Witnesses say he shouted "Allahu Akbar" — Allah is great! — before opening fire in a crowded building where troops were sitting ducks, waiting to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan, both wars that Hasan angrily opposed. "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," he reportedly said earlier this year, referring to the U.S. — the country he swore to protect.

During the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, another devout Muslim in the Army had a similar conflict. Sgt. Hasan Akbar also resorted to violence, fragging 17 fellow soldiers, killing two. Why? He opposed the killing of fellow Muslims. "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," he was overheard by soldiers who survived the grenade attack as saying.

Clearly, his loyalties lay elsewhere. And he's hardly alone:

• Navy Signalman Hassan Abujihaad last year was convicted of tipping off al-Qaida to battle group movements in the Persian Gulf, including disclosing classified documents detailing the group's vulnerability to terror attack.

• Army reservist Jeffrey Battle in 2003 pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the U.S., confessing he enlisted "to receive military training to use against America."

• Army reservist Semi Osman in 2002 was arrested for providing material support to al-Qaida and pleaded guilty to weapons charges after agreeing to testify against other terror suspects.

• Marine Abdul Raheem al-Arshad Ali trained at a suspected al-Qaida camp and was charged with selling a semi-automatic handgun to Osman.

• Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed trained Green Berets at Fort Bragg's elite special warfare school before stealing military secrets for al-Qaida and helping plan bombings at three U.S. embassies in 1998.

• Army Spec. Ryan Anderson in 2004 was convicted of leaking military intelligence to al-Qaida terrorists, including sensitive information about the vulnerabilities of armored Humvees.

• Army sniper John Muhammad was put on death row after fatally shooting 10 in the nation's capital a year after 9/11.

While good and decent Muslim soldiers have served admirably, the list of those who have put their allegiance to Islam above country is long, and this is by no means an exhaustive accounting.

The Pentagon must do a better job of vetting such recruits. And it must do a better job of force protection — starting with beefing up its counterspying operations — before more intelligence is compromised and more soldiers are lost.